Most people who are active in the domain industry spend a considerable amount of time and money bidding on domain name auctions. After I win a domain auction there are several things I do to ensure that the domain name is set up properly and possibly listed for sale under my accounts.

I want to share a few tips and steps you might want to take after winning a domain auction to make sure everything on your end is in order.

Add the domain name to your parking account and make sure the keywords are correctly set.

Be sure that the name is actually added to your account because you may not see an error message should the name already be listed in someone else’s account.

Check aftermarket venues like Sedo, Afternic, and Aftermarket.com to see if the domain name is already listed for sale in someone else’s account.

If the domain name is listed for sale in another account, contact the aftermarket venue to have it removed. You will probably need to wait until the domain name is in your registrar account before they will make the change for you.

Add the domain name to your sale account(s) at aftermarket venues.

Depending on where the auction was won and if you want to do this, you may be able to ask them not to report the sale publicly. Some venues may honor your request and others may not. Keep in mind some blogs report daily sales, so doing this may not help.

After you win a domain name at auction, you want to make sure the domain name is in your control at the registrar, sales venues, and parking companies. It can be very easy to accidentally overlook adding the domain name to your accounts, especially if there is an error message that you may not see.

If you are a domain seller, having your domain names listed in an account you don’t control can be troubling, especially if it has a price that is lower than your optimal selling price. It may be tough to sell a domain name for $10,000 if it is listed elsewhere for $5,000!

About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has sold seven figures worth of domain names in the last five years. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest.

Comments (6)

Leonard Britt

Given the number of UDRP cases using a parked page as a claim of non-business use, I wonder if parking a domain with $XXXX or higher resale value is a risky strategy. It seems unfair to not be able to park a domain for fear of a UDRP filing (no obvious trademark but who knows what could happen years later) but I have removed parking from many brandable .COMs where I feel it isn’t worth the risk.

As an example, I have a Spanish virtual currency .COM domain regged in 2008 but someone filed a European Union trademark on that phrase in latter 2012. The domain redirects to my domain sales page rather than a parked page. Page Howe had a discussion on DomainSherpa about this issue yesterday. It ticks me off that I may be limited in my ability to sell the domain because if the domain changes hands, the trademark holder might initiate a UDRP claim against my buyer.

Wow, getting offers already and i can’t even get proper codes to get two that i bought at go daddy over two weeks ago into my account.
Go daddy is in no hurry to help, they got what they wanted….my money…so now they want me to take up the matter at dispute at go daddy auctions.

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